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Day 34 - Harvard Classics - 90 Day Challenge

May 16: THE POETRY OF THE CELTIC RACES

Favorite Superstitions of Celtic Imagination

Chessboards on which, of their own accord, black pieces playedagainst white; chariots that swiftly turned hither and yon withouta driver; pots in which a coward's meat would not cook—all these are woven into bewitching stories.

May 17: Plato's APOLOGY OF SOCRATES

An Honest Life's Reward

Condemned for impiety, Socrates felt so justified in the virtueof his past action that instead of receiving a death sentence, hetold the judges he should be maintained at public expense as apublic benefactor.